October 2012 Moms

Sleep training phase 1

So I'm on a slow mission to night wean ds. He goes down to sleep okay but is up 2 or 3 times a night. Also he doesn't nurse/take bottles well during the day, so he can have room for momma's all night buffet. So now I don't let him nurse more then ten minutes. If he comes off then he gets put back to bed. Will see how it goes.

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Re: Sleep training phase 1

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  • Did not go well last night. Going to stick to it though. Once he is eating less then I will probably have to just stop.

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  • Good luck mama.  I night-weaned all at once.  LO was pretty angry with me for a few days.  She wasn't really eating though, just a couple of sips over a 10-20 min period every two hours.  Her appetite didn't really increase during the day, so I think she was mostly just nursing out of habit/sleep associations/comfort.  I envy your patience to do it in a much gentler way rather than my cold-turkey method.

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  • @napjunkie don't envy yet this is phase 1. In a few days the all night buffet will returning to normal business hours. Then I expect tears. I think I'm going to use Ferber. For phase 2

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  • Ferber is my best friend.  I didn't sleep more than a two-hour stretch for the first 8 months of Stella's life.  Then I read his book.  Seven nights later I had a baby that sleeps through the night.
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